Pseudo Quotes

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.

Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.

Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse.

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.

I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my way.

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely.

If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.